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/ 17 October 2006
Freddy Fender, the ”Bebop Kid” of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad Before the Next Teardrop Falls, died on October 14. He was 69. Fender, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2006, died at noon at his Corpus Christi home with his family at his bedside, said Ron Rogers, a family spokesperson.
Six Cubans trying to reach Mexico spent two months at sea, mostly on a nine-metre boat, before landing on Mustang Island on the Texas coast, United States Customs and Border Protection officials said on Thursday. Five men were treated and released from hospital early on Thursday, a day after they were found on the beach. The sixth person, a woman, remained in hospital in a stable condition.
The time is 10:13pm, the temperature is 34 degrees Celsius, and the humidity is somewhere between rain forest and gumbo. But step out of the sultry Texas night and into the Circle K convenience store, and suddenly it’s not summer.